The Immigrant Cookbook

Recipes that Make America Great

Collected and edited by Leyla Moushabeck

About the Book

Interlink Publishing, a Massachusetts-based independent publishing house—publisher of award-winning cookbooks Soup for Syria: Recipes to Celebrate our Shared Humanity, Palestine on a Plate, The Aleppo Cookbook, Persiana and others—has collaborated with 80 acclaimed immigrant chefs in the US on a project to counteract the toxic, anti-immigrant rhetoric, help raise funds to support the ACLU’s (American Civil Liberties Union) Immigrants’ Rights Project, and to celebrate the many ethnic groups that have contributed to America’s vibrant food culture.

"This is a powerful, important, and delicious cookbook which everyone should own. Roots cooking at its finest."

—Anthony Bourdain

"Recipes tell two stories: the story of how to make a meal and the story of the people who have made it over time. Recipes, like people, come from somewhere. They bring this somewhere to their new home and, in so doing, create something new. The resulting meal, like the resulting country, is all the better for it. The Immigrant Cookbook is a vital reminder and celebration of these two stories."

—Yotam Ottolenghi

"Reading the recipes in this beautiful book, I felt like I was listening to a language
that could help bridge every divide."

—Alice Waters

"A gorgeous celebration of the delicious diversity of America—plate by plate."

—David Lebovitz

"The Immigrant Cookbook is exceptionally beautiful and important—the best story of America. It contains so much more than recipes and should be in every American kitchen for Americans to show off and use with joy. It is a book that will have
pride of place—and use—in my kitchen!"

—Deborah Madison

The Author

Leyla Moushabeck

Leyla Moushabeck is Interlink Publishing’s longtime cookbook editor. Over the past 10 years, she has worked on numerous award-winning cookbooks, including, most recently, Interlink’s humanitarian cookbook project, Soup for Syria: Recipes to Celebrate Our Shared Humanity, and The Aleppo Cookbook, winner of the 2017 Art of Eating Prize. She is born to a Palestinian father and a British mother, and lives with her Colombian husband and son in Brooklyn.